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Sacramento, California, United States

• Currently moving through a massive production ramp of over 400% within 12 months (planned). Production includes Stainless MIG and TIG welding’s, as well as Plasma, Robot operated spot weld, Robot wire feed plasma & carbon to stainless MIG welding.• Designed multiple template for different workstations to speed up the welding process using Creo Parametric 4. Reducing measuring and marking time to weld parts which helped us save 32 hours per car.• Created Standard Work Instructions (SWI) and trained operators for welding process, templates usage, Fixture usage and various equipment usage.• Setup new workstation to ramp up the Production. Divided single workorder into 2 workorders, along with doing some changes in the welding sequence to accommodate the time constraint, hence saving 50 hours per car.• Introduced a new material delivery 2 - Bin Kanban System along with warehouse engineers for the production shop floor area. Introduced a new Barcode system to keep track of all material delivery carts.• Implemented various safer and critical Lifting solution such as lifting beams, vacuum lifters along with different types of clamps and slings in order to save much needed space and time.• Planned the changes in equipment layout in order to accommodate the ramp up phase in production. Lead a team of operators to execute the changes in equipment layout using various forklifts and Lifting solutions without effecting the production rate by carrying out the layout change on weekends.• Designed fall protection platforms in order to assure safety of operators working on Robot spot welding equipment’s.• Executed fixture modification and installed new fixtures according to the requirements for new products. • Contributed to budget development and ensures adherence to agreed budgets in Industrial Engineering.

Elk Grove, California, United States

• Accomplished Design of Experiments-(DOE) for two new models as DRI Quality engineer and presented the results to customer, thus implemented the results on production line and minimizing the cost of operations and poor quality.• Lead corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) for high-level quality issues by implementing lean tools as RCFAs, 8D, 5 Why, Bottleneck Analysis to minimize over and under rejects that were happening on production line• Developed and revised pFMEA and Control Plans to identify potential failure mode and their corrective actions.• Communicate with production supervisor and line leads regarding Quality issues and ensured that corrective actions and preventive actions are implemented, managed related documentation and supervised operator. • Collaborated with design team to define critical-to-quality outputs (CTQs) and made sure performance standards and specification limits are met as per the customer requirements. • Created SOPs for new models and revised SOPs for older models for various audit operations and trained FQA’s and operators.• Responsible for the closure of Non-conformance report (NCR) and the Supplier Corrective Actions (SCAR) on a Non-Conforming product and make disposition on the part, Performed supplier audits and handled supplier related documents and claims. • Supervised Pre-Dispatch inspections and provided reports to customers based on their standards and ensuring only Quality Product Dispatch to the customer on daily basis, resulting 5% decrease in non-complaint units.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Scheduled and conducted exams for 1000s of students on various examination platform and different venues.• Acted as a liaison between professors and management and led a team of 30 coworkers resulting 20% growth annually.

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

• Accomplished 6S quality inspection assigned to the quality team and escalated various recommendations to the management, thus increasing efficiency and minimizing breakdowns resulting an increase in production rate by 7.5%.• Responsible for optimizing of production processes by ensuring New Product Development (NPD) to manufacturing, is compliant with quality and productivity requirements.• Develop manuals, picture standards and one-point lessons (OPLs) as part of operator training; Write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for key production processes and equipment operations • Implement systems to capture, trend and report process improvement needs from a quality perspective through application of lean principles such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), 6 Sigma and 5S

Master'S Degree, Industrial Engineering, 3.71

Activities and Societies: Graduate Indian Society Organisation active member INFORMS UH chapter memeber CourseWork Statistical Process.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering